Vladislav

A lot of good luck with the project! Looks awesome when painted. Still wondering how do you sand blast the assembled bogie, I mean about different seals, bushings and breathers. Vlad

Looks like it was done on the 1st page Paul, I don't use to miss your attention. I had no talks with the folks who brang that Ford to the show although I spoke with the Czech guys who built the crane and got their contact for the future. Going to wright them, will ask about the Ford also, shure they're familiar with it and maybe with the Romanian modellers. Vlad

Do you mean some of this kind? I had one with roll back years ago although didn't ever drive it in NY

Mick, those all models were assembled off plastic kits of different producers. So they conein lots of hand work and were built as single exemplairs. Many were strongly modifyed using different optional custom parts or just scratch-builded stuff. For example if you look at the pic 2 from the top of the list there's DAF chassis with high detalization. The man who built it worked it out as the vehicle he drives every day by his job. The cab used the resin casted one from the Great Britain firm, the chassis components were of some plastic high-series models strongly modifyed though and the engine was almost scratch-built. He said on my question that he multiplied it by resin casting for his future projects. So at all there's a lot of prducents of different plastic kits with nice-looking pictures on their covers although you need to add a great amount of time, labour and attention to get a really good rig on your shelf. It's also a kind of adventure anyway.

I think you're right, Paul. I saw the pics of pre-assembled not painted kit and too liked how clear it was done. So when I found out that ready truck I fixed it in my camera. As for me I don't. Just too liked how it was done. Would be too interesting to learn the answer of your misterious question.

Too sorry about those stories folks. I can feel your pain so deep. Because, as Pawel said, there's no SAE stuff here at all! Or just at all. The SAE hardware on my Mack trucks is a kind of adventure to me, an additional point of luck to keep it all original. Although a mixture of metric stuff with inches looks to me as a real BS. Leslie, if the things will go really bad I can send some best quality bolts and nuts off Mercedes-Benz cars. Used though. McMaster might be ready to help I hope. They weren't too friendly to me though being saying "No stuff to Russia by any way".

Hi Pawel! Yes, I put my foot around the center of Europe again. Although was shortened in time so went to Germany by plane and continued with the rented car. Catched the perfect weather wich you enjoyed also I hope. Came back home yesterday and found snow and light freeze here. Happily now troubles with Ukranian story yet although it makes me worry. Politics might force out course of life to be changed. Hope you enjoyed the pics and woked slightly up your modelling activity now.

Those Bulldogs were shure built off the Monogram boxes although with a great amount of labour and love. If you look well you may see the seat cushion on the crane is removed showing the springs in the cracked area. Both 2 AC's were built by Czehian guy. He had 2 or 3 different extra ones, had the pics of them in his phone. The cars on the bottom pics were really nice done with the most accuracy. Every little part was worked out really perfect. The paint job was just at the top level.

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Hi all! There was the interesting event I didn't want to miss so I made a trip to Europe to. Most the stuff showed was of 1:24 or 1:25 scale. Some models were lager though. I made a lot of pics for shure, here you can see the most interesting and attractive ones. And keep in mind, the shots were done in Jabekke, not in Winfall, if someone was in waiting for another sort of them Had many talks with nice folks there also.

Does a glider have a chassis number stamped on a frame? One of my R's has both rails mark-free. Maybe re-railing? But they are painted in the original frame color, almost like the everything about the chassis.

What is the kind of the gear box? I might be interested in it (box) if it's some TRD-72, the bigger one, not TRD-67. Vlad

Looks solid and no much rust for Canadian unit. If it would be a twin I might start to wiggle my a$$ an a chair. RW is damn attractive excepting the bank wich doesn't look bad on my mind. That's a wrong thing though.

Have you seen so much snow in Kansas at the lunch time today?? That stuff looks mostly gone in my neck of the woods yet..

I double all the kind words above in your address Kscarbel. The most reason for me being here is getting knowledge over the truck product we all here too love. It's a great chance for me as a person who lives far away and who lived many years in the past behind the shield of the Cold war to be involved in the living of so nice community of Mack people. This way I really happy while here and want to say special thanks personally to you and to everybody else who share interesting and useful information over the part of the trucking world we all so used to enjoy. Vlad.

Wonder about the interior. It must have steel dash in, isn't it?

A kind of laziness wich is actual a real stupidity. The show truck must go a long way so they will need to wash it very well before the show must go on.

With 12v71 it would be a mad beast. Just an easy spray of the wheels with a can and cleaning/polishing up the cab might make her nice-looking white-dressed lady.

Randy, PM sent. Tom, too sorry to learn that.

Best wishes guys! Enjoy your day!

The most interesting question (for some of us) was that U-model or DM? I like those snowy and sunny road shots (as usual), the beasts are cool. At least no less cooler than the goats on the hill. And those B&W adds in the magasine - were they fresh or they'we just a history?

That's above is cool, thanks for the links. Although could anybody tell me what is the general difference beteween TR-107 and T-200 series? They look have much in common. Both are triple countershafts.

Not Mack although I like them.

Randy, I got a mind after being at Mahan he's not interested much in after the war trucks. As for the price I also think it's way over although time usually make changes in man's opinions especially when they're needing some cash.

Cool looking truck! Makes impression at all. What was the matter of a RD of those years? Looks quite as a R to me, no set back axle or anything else viewable. Vlad